264 Pa. Super. 609 - Beck v. Minestrella’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Like all summary judgments entered without a trial judgment on the pleadings may be entered only in clear cases free from doubt where there are no issues of fact, and only where the cause is so clear that a trial would clearly be a fruitless exercise. . . . The party moving for the judgment on the pleadings admits for the purpose of his motion the truth of all the allegations of his adversary and the untruth of any of his allegations which may have been denied by his adversary." Goodrich-Amram 2d, § 1034(b)(1).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 394 Pa. Super. 302 - Leidich v. Franklin · 456 Pa. Super. 388 - Otterson v. Jones

2. “We think it clear that Lamp is not applicable. The plaintiffs here in each instance delivered to the sheriff for service the writ, the complaint in trespass, and the reinstated complaint. Each such issuance and delivery kept the action alive for a period equal to the original period of limitation applicable to the action. Zarlinsky v. Laudenslager, 402 Pa. 290 , 167 A.2d 317 (1961). At no time does the record indicate that he did anything to impede the service of the various papers or engage in any conduct of any kind “to stall in its tracks the legal machinery.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 456 Pa. Super. 356 - Shackelford v. Chester County Hospital

3. “there were any defect in this procedure it did not affect 'the substantial rights of the parties.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stinson v. Kaiser Gypsum Co.